Babies Born July 2007 #3

ok so lacteze you can get from chemist? i will have a look at these today too... he only sleeps for like 30 min periods in my arms...! the rest of the time he is screaming...

is this the one you add to expressed milk?

Hi all,

Bridee, good job on going out for lunch. How good does it feel now to go out especially when bubs is quite the whole time.

Tracey, oh no, poor little zyon, but at least now you know at least you can work on fixing th problem. I think there is a fresh soy milk now that is fortified with calcium too, just at the supermarket with other milk.

Jan, hopefully it is just a growth spurt and you will have your little angel back soon. at least until the teeth start coming in :doh:
Don't feel bad about not getting smiles. Neither of us get proper smiles. the only thing in our house that gets smiles is the aero plane mobile above the change table. And when I try to join in and play with him when he smiles, he gives me a look, like what are you doing, no one invited you to join in and play. :lol: There will come a day when all they want is mum, and then it will be dad, and then there will be a day when it's nan. but they will always come back to mum!!

Veronica, I hope avaleigh isn't lactose intolerant too, although it can't hurt to try changing your diet and seeing what happens. I too have read some of these posts, and yu can't help but wonder. 'cause Xaviers poos always smell a little sweet, but frothy I'm not sure, they are runny way tmi huh, but I have been told they are normal bf baby poo. The comforting thing for me though, and sorry ladies, we are not up all night screaming. So I strike that symptom off my list.

Fran, it sounds like you are doing well still, I'm with tracey, just hang in there, it will get better soon. Is your cream still working? and what tracey said about letting them air too, I have found I do much better if i can just let it all hang out, 'cause sometimes my nipples are too sensitive to wear a bra, 'cause it just makes them sore. I'm planning to head off and get a crop top style one soon to wear to bed, but I've never seen any that fit big boobs, so we'll see.

Mel, there is no stopping this kid from growing. People keep trying to tell us that he will be tall, but I'm afraid genetics is against him there. I think he's just a proper little man who has already set his priorities to boobs and food, and well they come in one neat little package right now.
I've been wondering what soy ice cream tasted like, as I eat far too much dairy, but I don't want to give it up. Plus I eat far too much ice cream, probably not good for the waste line, maybe I could ween myself off on soy ice cream.

Well I'm sorry to hear none of you have been sleeping very well. We had a lay in yesterday, it wasn't a sleep in but it sure helped out my headache. I never had headaches before I ended up overdue and my bp went up, so fingers crossed they aren't connected. I think what is really happening is that my body is having sugar withdrawals, because I too have been eating nothing but rot. I felt a lot better after my hungry jacks I had for lunch yesterday. But I'm not as strong as mel, I don't think I could cut the sugar.

Here's hoping things start getting better for you all.

Have a good day??

HI there everyone,
seems you have all been very very busy with bubs over the last few days. Lach had a great night on sat night, and a reasonable night last night.
I am giving him wind drops with his night feeds and he seems to be a bit better.
He isnt sleeping as well as everyone elses bubs... very jealous!
He seems to wake after about an hour during the day, but I just pop his dummy in and he drifts off(usually).

Jan - i hear you on all accounts!! Our boys sound as if they are doing the same things. I too get no more than 3 hours of sleep out of the littlie... hopefully this changes very very soon.

Rebecca- I was having headaches on and off every day until early last week. I saw my doc about it, who wanted me to keep an eye on things until my 6 week checkup. Hopefully they go for you. I found that not even panediene was working for me:(


Well, I have started the logistical nightmare of packing for Lach for our 4 day trip to Wagga on friday. Its a 4- 4.5 hour drive, so I am hoping only one feed no the way up if we time it right;)
I have written out a whole A4 page of things we will need. I hope Adam and I don't need much, or looks like we may be walking atound wagga starkers for a day or 2!!

Fathers day here was fantastic. I even got a couple of tears from Adam, after he read his card from Lach and I, and got his pressies! And we gave them to him at 1215am, as I couldn't wait any longer to give them to him!
We went to Adams parents for the day, which is an hour away. Lach met his great grandparents for the first time. Little guy was smothered with love all day. hehe

We went to the house we will be moving to in the next few weeks, and its almost ready to go. Just having a few floorboards replaced. I can't wait! It's such a huge house, I will lose Lach when he starts crawling!

Anywho, time for my hotdogs ( another who is eating junk! who has time to cook nutritional meals anymore? ).
Have a great day all.

Hugs

Nicki, I don't think my headaches have been that bad, I didn't even bother with the pain relief for them.
Xavier and I were up after midnight on sunday morning too, and Nathan got home from playing nerd games so he got his fathers day presents early too.

I hope you have a good trip to wagga and hope you don't have to walk around starkers. Well at least you won't know many people if you do ;)

Tracey, yes it is lacteeze. My doctor first said lactaid, but I can't find that one, I don't think they sell it in Australia anymore. It says to add it to ebm but my doc said to just put one drop or two on my nipple before each feed.

Ok so I will go find this lacteeze stuff, I figure it's all worth a try!??

I hope we get results before we leave for Bali!!!

Hi All,

Well went to the paed physio today about Georgie's not being able to turn her head to the right and her flatted sided head. I have so many exercises to do with her, most of which look really uncomfortable for her but it all about stretching her neck and back muscles. I have to start sleeping her on her side during the day, which makes me kind of nervous (since SIDS recommends back sleeping) but physio did reassure me it was ok. Have another appoint in 2 weeks, physio said we should be able to notice a difference by then. So all of Georgies awake time will be spent on these exercises, the plus side is I expect by the time we are done with the exercises she will be so tired she will go straight to sleep (well I can only hope).

Question: my milk suppy seems to have increased over the past couple of days, I was expecting around 6 weeks it would settle but if Georgie goes over 3 hours between feeds my bb are so hard. My bb are also increasing in size as a result - I use to be a b cup, now a d cup and I think I would just about to go up another size. Have others milk supply settled yet or still excessive?

Bridee- my BB last week were so full all the time- but she was draining them at each feed- I think she was going through a growth spurt, it seems to have settled down again now.

I am glad to hear that all the sick bubbas seem to be slowly sorting themselves out.

We are going great at the moment. We are getting heaps of little smiles and giggles already, which is soooo much fun. Everytime we put her in her rocker, she gives a couple of smiles and giggles. She even smiles at me at nappy chnage time!!!

Am using cloth nappies at the moment during the day when we are not goin anywhere! It certainly is different! I am having fun experienting with different folds, and inventing my own origami folds!

Well that about it, except our broadband is crap- it had died again- so am on dial-up unitl the new modem arives from a different carrier. so wont be on here much as it is just way to slow!!! hopefulyy will be back on line again in a couple of days.

Hey everyone

Avaleigh has had a good day! She has slept pretty much the whole day - YAY! I think she goes through a cycle where she will sleep during the day for a day or so and then will go to not sleeping during the day cause I remember last Monday she slept during the day. We didnt manage our walk today because she was sleeping, thought I would take hold of the rare moment and relax a little bit.

Bridee - I dont think my boobs have settled either. They are still getting really full and I remember last week I was filling up my breast pads like I was at the beginning! I think our boobs are jsut going to be going through cycles cause of the growth spurts.

Sara - Avaleigh gives me smiles an nappy change time too!! It is soooooooo cute. I must say that whenever Avaleigh smiles it brings tears to my eyes!! I love her so much.

time for a new thread everyone